Line #59 JustForFun/TropeTitleVideoGames


1	Here's a JustForFun list of Tropes that would make a cool title for a video game (any kind), with a brief description of what the resulting show would be like.
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3	To any game-designers who may be reading this, you are free to help yourself to these pitches (or turn them into FictionalVideoGame examples in your projects) under these conditions:
4	# No changing the titles (unless, of course, you really, REALLY want to).
5	# No {{Screw\|ed By The Network}}ing.
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7	Compare JustForFun/TropeTitleShows, JustForFun/TropeNamesAsEpisodeTitles, JustForFun/TropeNamesForABand, SugarWiki/TVTropesSuperheroTeam, DarthWiki/TVTropesSupervillainTeam and JustForFun/TVTropesNeutralTeam.
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9	%%As per Administrivia/NoLewdnessNoPrudishness, please do not pitch ideas for graphic pornographic works, though works about sex are permitted.
10	%%If a trope is renamed or moved, it can stay here; just remove the link, and specify "(now defunct)" if needed.
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12	* AliensInCardiff: An IndieGame where you play a [[TheGreys grey-alien]] living in a 50's style suburb, trying to live a normal life, often failing in hilarious ways.
13	* AnalogHorror: A series of episodic levels where the PlayerCharacter has to traverse various random locations (the woods, a conspicuously empty neighborhood, etc.) and avoid various {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s, ghosts, and aliens hunting you down, the whole game is done in a polygonal style with VHS screen effects. The collectibles are videotapes that play unusual [=PSAs=] and home movies of the people who supposedly lived there, creating a very dedicated fandom online that dedicates themselves to understanding the game's lore.
14	* AudienceParticipation: A wacky platformer game. Players take turns trying to beat a level, while spectators can induce effects such as obscuring the camera, changing the character's movement speed, or flipping the screen around.
15	* ButWaitTheresMore: A MinigameGame consisting of different {{Endless Game}}s.
16	* ChristmasRushed: An EndlessRunningGame set in a shopping mart. You play parents (the gender is optional for the player) desperate to find all the gifts they need for Christmas. Obstacles include employees, other shoppers, stacks of toys and so on.
17	* ChristmasTown: A CollectAThonPlatformer set in the North Pole where you play a {{Christmas El\|ves}}f trying to save Christmas after TheKrampus steals all of Santa's gifts.
18	* ComMons: A ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''-parody where you catch real life animals instead of made-up ones. Cats, dogs, pigeons, etc. One of the levels has you invade a zoo, the [=NPCs=] calling you insane for climbing into tiger cages to fight them. The Legendary mons are based on [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious cryptids]], though their designs imply that they're just regular people in costumes.
19	* CosmicChessGame: A TabletopGame/{{Chess}} simulator play as either GodOfGood or the GodOfEvil playing chess against each other. Every move the player and the opponent makes features text prompts showing how the game effects the mortal world, with each piece taken off the world causing good or bad things to happen to humanity. If the good god wins, it's sunshine and rainbows for all. If the bad god wins, well...
20	* DependingOnTheArtist: A party game for multiple players. One player, called the commissioner, requests a piece from the rest of the players, the artists. One artist draws a picture first, and the rest draw their own version of it. The commissioner must guess which piece the original artist drew.
21	* DigitalHorror: An indie-horror game that acts as a social-media simulator where the player gets cyberstalked.
22	* DisasterDominoes: Make the craziest domino contraptions you can imagine and watch them fall!
23	* DisneySchoolOfActingAndMime: A RhythmGame on the Platform/{{Kinect}} where various Creator/DisneyChannel actors teach the game's tween demographic how to dance.
24	* FantasticVermin: A SurvivalHorror game made to be an AffectionateParody of {{Simulation Games}} where you're hired to exterminate rats in an old house, only to uncover a labyrinth in the basement invested with rabid RatMen.
25	* FetchQuest: You play a delivery boy in a smal, unassuming town tasked with delivering packages and gifts for the neighbors. Much of the game's popularity doesn't come from the game itself, but the twistedl dark fan theories people have made based on subtext; the neighborhood is full of body-snatching aliens, the nice old lady is making pies out of missing neighborhood pets, etc.
26	* {{Gashadokuro}}: A PuzzlePlatformer set in Japan where the PlayerCharacter has to traverse an empty village, hiding in the shadows to avoid being noticed by a Gashadokuro's spotlight gaze. Should the player get caught in its sight, the Gashadokuro grabs and eats them.
27	* GoMadFromTheApocalypse: A ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''-esq HeroShooter set many decades after the ZombieApocalypse ended society. With all the weird wacky stuff going on (zombies exploding in confetti, other survivors acting like clowns, etc) combined with the game's title, gamers theorize that it's actually a bleak ''[[Series/TheWalkingDead2010 Walking Dead]]''-esq post-apocalypse and that everything is so stylized and cartoonish because [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness the protagonist snapped and now looks at the world like it's a fun adventure because they couldn't cope with the reality of the situation]]. WordOfGod confirms this to be true, with a cut secret ending revealing that the protagonist has been killing innocent people in the Acropolis surrounded by zombies in a bleak, dirty "real world".
28	* TheGreatExterminator: Action FPS. You are an exterminator who goes into peoples' houses and must seek out and kill all of the pests to win the level.
29	* TheGreys: An indie-MascotHorror set in a civilian suburb undergoing a power-outage and the protagonist has to avoid being abducted by aliens.
30	* HollywoodSatanism: An IdleGame where you play as {{Satan}} building his "brand" (Satanic Cult). The game has two different currencies; faith and souls. Use faith to upgrade faith-building enterprises (ranging from basement altars to policies pushing evil on a judicial level), and for every 100+ faith points you get a soul point. Use soul points to upgrade access to more powerful forms of faith gathering.
31	* HotelHellion: A CollectAThonPlatformer where you play a child who loses their trading cards all across the titular hotel and have to get them back by doing favors to hotel staff and patrons, uncovering a malicious plot in the process.
32	* InactionVideo: An IdleGame about movie production. Hire staff members to get money to make movies, they wait longer and hire more staff to make sequels and get more money.
33	* KungFuKid: A BeatEmUp game where you play a kid (boy or girl) who arrives at a martial arts school where he/she has to fight their classmates to reach the top martial arts fighter in school.
34	* LandShark: A side-scroller on Steam where you play a shark that had evolved to swim through the ground. Your enemies are animal control with guns and you regain health by eating innocent bystanders.
35	* MadMarbleMaze: A PuzzlePlatformer where you navigate an Escher-maze in a ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall'' situation.
36	* MagicalMinorityPerson: A FightingGame series features battle of the mages from each theme;
37	** MagicalAsian: The {{Magical Girl}}s from various Asian countries fight in the tournament. You can choose one heroine for your playable character.
38	** MagicalJew: A JewishAmericanPrincess who becomes a MagicalGirl and has to fight the Biblical figures to make a wish from the god.
39	** MagicalNativeAmerican: A Native American sorcerer who fights the indigenous mythical creatures and the spirits.
40	** MagicalNegro: Similar to MagicalAsian, but African, and with group battles, and you can form your own tribe for the battles.
41	** MagicalQueer: A WesternAnimation/SuperDrags or ComicBook/ZsazsaZaturnnah-style battle game features the CampGay DragQueen heroine who happens to fight the HeteronormativeCrusader, StrawFeminist, and ArmoredClosetGay villains.
42	** MagicalRomani: A Romani fortuneteller who fights the tarot-theme enemies to turn his/her fates into the better ways.
43	* ManOnFire: A ''VideoGame/DoodleJump''-ripoff cell-phone game of a man hysterically running on fire. The player has to make sure to avoid obstacles so that they can make it to the large puddle of water at the end.
44	* ManyQuestionsFallacy: A QuizGame featuring [[InsaneTrollLogic insane, illogical]], and [[AudienceParticipation user-submitted]] questions.
45	* TheModernGods: A [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto GTA]]-clone where a street preacher, having undergone a drug-induced spirit quest, accidentally creates a new pantheon of gods that represent modern concepts (smartphones, street-food, street-crime, etc) from his genuine belief in them. With only one believer, they decide to set out and expand the cult to increase their base of power, being forced to contend with the believers and gods of the already established faiths who see them as a threat. After the third act, the new pantheon manages to establish a stranglehold over the city, but the God of Street-Crime (who took charge in order to help expand their cult into sustainability) starts inciting civil war within the city amongst his believers to feed off of the chaos and the rest of the pantheon has to stop him before it ends in their annihilation.
46	* {{Murder Simulator\|s}}: You play a passionate game-designer who wants to create the most realistic game ever and winds up involved in an underground FightClubbing in order to do research. Despite its grim name and premise, it's actually a [[DenserAndWackier Dense and Wacky]] game because Creator/Suda51 was given creative control over the project.
47	* TheOldGods: A ''VideoGame/LittleNightmares''-esq PuzzlePlatformer where you play Orpheus venturing into the Greek Underworld to find his lost lady-love, only to try and avoid being killed and/or damned by the monstrous things lurking there. Such threats include: Cerebrus guarding the gates, {{Vengeful Ghost}}s who would just loved to suck out your soul, Charon {{the Ferryman}} who doesn't want you on his boat, the Furies, the imprisoned Titans who would just love to eat you, and finally Hades.
48	* OrganAutonomy: Time management simulation game where you control a group of anthropomorphic organs that you must switch between to ensure a human's body is running smoothly.
49	* ThePawnsGoFirst: A TabletopGame/{{Chess}}[=-themed=] PlatformGame where you're given the option of being Black or White. Whichever color you pick, the other becomes the theme of the enemies, where you jump on and attack the enemies not unlike how you would in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''. When your character dies, another piece from the board takes their place and that it how the live's system works. Each different playing piece (Pawns, Knights, Bishops, etc.) moves differently, not unlike ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''. The final boss is the opposing team's King, and should you run out of pieces and have to play as your King and you lose that piece, it's GameOver.
50	* {{Phonymon}}: A ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''-parody based off of [[Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries the Original Series of the anime]]. You play as Ass Ketchup, who wants to be the Master... but he's a thirty-year old deadbeat who wants to be a Phonymon master and people typically start when they're ten. So Ketchup gets the idea of making bootleg Phonymons.
51	* PlatformHell: An AffectionateParody of old-school 2D platformer games. The game begins as a standard ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''-knockoff and the PlayerCharacter falls down a {{Bottomless Pit\|s}} and winds up in {{Hell}}. {{Satan}} mockingly tells you that you'll spend an eternity in Hell unless they find the 1-Up he keeps in his personal castle and gives you the chance to take it and revive in the living world. The game itself is a NintendoHard platformer known for its {{troll}}ish sense of humor.
52	* PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel: SimulationGame where you play as an aspiring Website/{{YouTube}}r, and must use annoying and intrusive measures to get views and subscribers.
53	* QuickDraw: An old LightGunGame from the arcade era where you play a sheriff gunning down outlaws in TheWildWest.
54	* QuirkyWork: A SimulationGame where you run a desk-job in Japan. Since it's made by Americans, it portrays every day office work in Japan as incredibly weird.
55	* QuoteMine: A game where you collect quotes from people and use ManipulativeEditing to condemn your enemies' reputation.
56	* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: A LifeSimulationGame where you play a suburban dad who is secretly a SerialKiller, tasked with paying the bills and ensuring their family is happy while at the same time finding new and creative ways to out your insatiable bloodlust without getting caught.
57	* SceneryCensor: A short indie game where the player character has lost his clothes, and must navigate a building to find a spare pair of pants, all while carefully ensuring that there's always something obscuring his junk from the security cameras.
58	* SkeletonCrew: A MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame where you play a pirate who dies and is offered a chance at glory in the dead ocean of Davy Jones' Locker.
59	* SuperTitle64Advance: An online-multiplayer PartyGame with graphics purposefully done to evoke the Platform/Nintendo64.
60	* TalkToTheFist: Aggressively manly and macho 2D sidescrolling beat 'em up.
61	* TechnicolorDeath: An ActionRPG where you play TheGrimReaper, assigned by [[{{God}} Management]] to reap the corrupt CEO of MegaCorp when their plan will result in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. The game includes robots, critiques of Crony-Capitalism, and [[CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain lots and lots of rain]].
62	* TwilightOfTheSupers: A WideOpenSandbox game set in a superhero world in the later of the SuperheroPrevalenceStages. You play an OccultDetective (a deliberate homage to [[Characters/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]]) who is hired by the US Government to find out who and how a thought-to-be-unkillable SupermanSubstitute was murdered in a back-alley with stab wounds. The player can do side-missions where they investigate other crimes committed by long-time supervillains and do other general hero stuff. The later stages of the plot reveal the origins of how superheroes started popping up and a conspiracy believed to have caused it, with the CentralTheme of the story being about the ending of an era, older generations fearing the new and the dangers of sacrificing the future to try and preserve an idealized past.
63	* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: A MascotFighter where you can play any and every character ever put to fiction. They get around copyright laws by licensing it as a ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' spinoff.
64	* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: A {{Murder Simulator\|s}} where you play an ActionHero fighting zombie-demon-nazis in {{Hell}} with a chainsaw-gun that transforms into a monster truck with spikes on its wheels. Bosses include a snuff film director, a pedophile pizza-man and Sean Hannity's giant head vomitting blood everywhere.
65	* UnconventionalFoodOrder: Cooking game where you make a variety of strange recipes with unusual ingredients.
66	* VampireVords: Parody TypingGame where you must type sentences in FangThpeak.
67	* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Open-world action-comedy game. You play as a {{Yandere}} who must be on the lookout for anyone who could even be ''considering'' harming your boyfriend, and you murder them in BloodyHilarious ways.
68	* WhamShot: An E-rated FirstPersonSnapshooter. You play as a professional photographer who must take photos worthy of being on the front page of the newspaper.
69	* WickedPretentious:
70	** You play a taste maker know for their garish tastes who abuses their staff and just generally makes everyone worse off because of their petty personally. Since it's set in a WorldOfJerkass where everyone is terrible, this is all PlayedForLaughs.
71	** A WideOpenSandbox Crime Simulator where you play an up-and-coming crimeboss who wants to become a member of the NebulousCriminalConspiracy. While the Conspiracy are made of Old Money high society criminals, the PlayerCharacter is NouveauRiche and comes from a low-class background, so a lot of the missions and objectives have the goal of legitimizing himself to high class society with pomp and pageantry, their failure of the attempt being PlayedForLaughs by the audience. Act II ends with them being rejected for their attempts and thus is now set to topple their criminal empire and laugh at their smug faces as their fortunes burn to nothing.
72	* AWizardDidIt: A {{Retraux}} 2.5-D RPG where you play a wizard that accidentally turned random objects across his village into monsters and its you job to fight them and return things to normal.

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